Garment hanger



`lune 2l, 1949.

C. L. MUNTWYLER ET AL GARMENT HANGER Filed Aug. 2, 1946 Inventors Patented June 21, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE GARMEN T HANGER Charles L. Muntwyler, Oak Park, and Edward J.

Frank, Cicero, Ill., assignors to AA Wire Products Co., Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Illinois Application August 2, 1946, Serial No. 687,832

(Cl. 22S-96) 2 Claims.

This invention relates to a hanger for garments such as trousers, skirts, etc. In the form shown and as hereinafter described, the article is a trousers hanger and will so be referred by way of illustration.

In general, the objects of our invention are to provide a garment hanger which may be conveniently and cheaply made from Wire and sheet metal; a hanger which is light, sturdy, and well suited for its intended purposes; and a. hanger which may be easily assembled and relied upon to perform dependably over a long period of service.

A suggestive embodiment of our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of the hanger in operative relation to a supported garment;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged View in perspective of the hanger;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section, enlarged, taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail in section, taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is a similar View, taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

The hanger comprises essentially three main units which are inseparably connected. These are a pair of straps A, a spring B, and a suspension wire C. The suspension wire which upstands from the top of the spring is curved to provide a hook E adapted to be engaged with a mounting bar 'l whereby the entire hanger may be supported at a desired elevation.

The two straps may be produced conveniently from sheet metal. As shown, each strap is beaded at l0 to provide a longitudinally extending internally facing channel.

Centrally of each channel is another bead il forming a branch channel which extends upwardly to the top edge of the strap. The two channels together form what may be termed an angle channel the purpose of which will presently appear. Each strap is also angled at I2 to provide a centrally outset elongated medial portion i3. When the two straps are pressed together, the outset medial portions define between them a space which is open at top and bottom. Desirably, pads lll of felt or the like are aixed to the confronting faces of the straps adjacent each other so as to engage frictionally with the garment that is clamped between them.

Associated with a pair of straps such as those just described is the spring B which may conveniently be produced from wire which in its medial region is formed into a plurality of coils 2G constituting a head from which is extended downwardly and divergingly a pair of arms 2l which are inturned toward each other at 22 to then proceed downwardly in the form of parallel legs 23. Each leg is laterally turned at 2t to provide a foot which extends parallel with the other but opposite thereto.

A wire spring such as the one just described, is adapted for cooperation with the two straps into whose vertical channels Il the lower portions of the legs 23 may be fitted with the feet 25 accommodated within the longitudinally extending channels l0.

When so assembled, a locking plate 2l is affixed, as by spot welds 2S, to the inner face of each strap in a position to cover the exposed part of the proximate leg and foot (see Fig. 5). The size and shape of the connecting channels l I is such as to accommodate therewithin the wire legs and feet, so that when the plates are aixed to the straps the wire feet will be closely and immovably conned in place.

The spring arms 2| thus joined to the two straps exert a tension force such as to press the one strap resiliently toward the other. In use, one spring arm when pressed toward other will produce a separation of the straps suiiicient to receive between them a garment, or release a garment therefrom. In any such manipulation, each strap is free to move only toward and from the other while maintaining a uniform distance therebetween at every point lengthwise thereof.

The suspension wire is formed With a depending shank which is upset to provide a head at its lower end. This shank is entered through an opening 32 in the top of a clasp 33 which may be bent around to encompass the coils 2li of the spring. The end portions 34 of the clasp proceed toward each other to engage the wire coils 20 with sufficient force to hold the clasp against movement relative to the spring. The wire shank however, is free to swivel in the clasp opening 32, so that the hook 6 may be turned to any desired rotative position relative to the spring coils.

strength 4fora secure gripping vof the garment toi be supported in response to the tension exertedY by the Wire spring at a single point medially of each strap.

We claim:

1. A garment hanger in which is comprised `a pair of opposed straps each'having arr: outset;

medial portion and formed-on the -innerv facer-oi y each medial portion with an angle ch'annelfcner end of which extends through tothe,topotthefl strap, the end portions of each strap being inset toward the other for meeting engagement; means` resiliently interconnecting the two straps of the H hanger: comprising? a wire. spring coiled: :to: form ahead romfwhich is dependedV aV pairot diverge' ingr-crossed; yarms each; terminating; in a: leg,zfromr which :is laterally extended awfoot'iirr parallelism: with, but-in :oppositionztm the other yfoot;l adapted*v toli'e1within, and interlock:with;l .thesangle;chan\.., n'elof one strap `thereby toxinterconnect the-'two' straps, a locking plate aiiixed, to; theinnerfface ofveach'strapin engaging relationwtlr; the associated"y foot 'to securefthev same imniovablyftortbe, strap, each locking platef occupying'y ai position. wholly-Within the confines-of the'A outset medial;

portion of one, strap both longitudinally andV transversely thereof, and suspension"mean-sterre;y

tending', upwardlyl from the springl head forzattachmentv .tof a xed: support..

2. A garment hanger in which is comprised a pair of opposed straps each having an outset medial portion and formed on the inner face of each medial portion with an angle channel opening upon the top edge of the strap, the end portions of each strap being inset toward the other for meeting engagement, means resiliently interconnectingg-the-two straps-:ofthe lhanger comprisinglav-wire'- spring formed into-legv portions each terminating in a laterally extending foot arranged to enter the angle channel opening of onestrap for interlocking therewith thereby to interconnect the two straps, and means disposed Whollyrgwithinf, the space defined by the. outset medial;iportionzoffeach strap, both longitudinally andwjtransversely y thereof, aflixed to the inner faceo1,eachstrap..in engagement with the wire leg'nd foot to secure the same immovably within theT channel of the strap.

CHARLES L. MUNTWYLER. EDWARD kJ;

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